Once the temperature in Hong Kong drops below 20 °C people start getting sniffy. I seldom get a cold but if I'm exposed to enough people in confined space for long enough like a packed MTR from Lai King to Central full of snot zombies who have forgotten about SARS and cannot be bothered to wear surgical masks. You know the signs of the cold wave. Suddenly you hear more and more people coughing and you feel like you've been transported to a filthy post-pestilence opening scene of Les Miserables.
We know Hong Kong is quite trigger happy when it comes to bombarding any kind of ailments with antibiotics. We want to keep antibiotics for the really serious stuff. But colds although not particularly painful or life-threatening are an extreme pain in the butt which when not treated properly can linger for weeks, and make life more miserable than having to sit through a 3-hour Les Miserables musical.
So what can be done when the cold wave hits without having to result to heavy meds? What's the paleo way to fight those cold bugs?
We know Hong Kong is quite trigger happy when it comes to bombarding any kind of ailments with antibiotics. We want to keep antibiotics for the really serious stuff. But colds although not particularly painful or life-threatening are an extreme pain in the butt which when not treated properly can linger for weeks, and make life more miserable than having to sit through a 3-hour Les Miserables musical.
So what can be done when the cold wave hits without having to result to heavy meds? What's the paleo way to fight those cold bugs?
